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Dude, you're a dope.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 8:29 am By: Big Bob

Translation: I dont have the votes to do what I want ,so clearly it's corruptionstanding in my way, not a rejection of my ideas.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 8:39 am By: Big Bob

Texas needs to start arresting the border patrol officers who cut the state installed razor wire barriers and more important their bosses who order it. Heck, they ought to convene a state grand jury to investigate and indict high level immigration officials as accessories to human smuggling. Lock Mayorkas up with no bond.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 7:33 am By: Conservative Voter

Biden's scofflaw regime is refsuing to enforce our immigration laws for purely political purposes as this Democrat congresswoman admits. They don't care about American citizens at all.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 7:24 am By: borderhawk

Will Simmons: You are correct in that Democracy can become Mob Rule, and that is why this nation is a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 12:21 am By: Stan Deatherage

Gary Patrick Tucker: I have absolutely no problem with the "rich tapestry of perspectives in Beaufort County," in fact, I embrace it. Where my problem lies with what you are referring as the "5-2" is that there has been in Beaufort County politics, for decades, is a misrepresentation of presentation of who is who, and what is what. From a functional perspective, this ongoing paradigm of fakery, there has been: corruption in order for individual politicians to succeed; the bipartisan coalition of vote swapping for power sharing between parties; in remaining elected; with the end result is a branding problem individually and collectively.

All I am doing as a politician, and, moreover, a journalist is that I point out what is true and what is real. So, within that "rich tapestry of perspectives in Beaufort County," what I represent to the public is the perspective of honest discourse, and clarity of purpose, to which i encourage others to do the same.

You see, if one is to be that political voice for their constituents, it is better to be an honest one. Singularly, if one is to believe in something such as the Republican Party of Beaufort County, then it needs to be real in its pursuits, which it clearly is not.

To that end, in the election process, where there are two functioning political parties, both with platforms of ideals and conduct of elected officials: there are the Democratic Socialists and there are the Republicans here in the county of Beaufort. I am not in charge of this construct, and generally have had little time to help forge those collected rules for the Republicans; however, I know what they are, and I do abide by those idyllic rules of political purpose. In turn, I expect fellow Republicans to do the same.

When that does not occur, and then, first there exists a cover up, which then becomes a collective lie, the truth will be told by those who are honest for the public has not only a right to know, moreover, the public is charged with a responsibility to know what is true and what is real. That is the only construct where the self-governed can continue to exist within the framework of a Representative Republic.

That is, in part, why the First Amendment provides for a Free Press. In the Public Square of Ideals only truth can exist for wisdom to flourish.

If I am wrong Gary Patrick Tucker, please tell me where and how, and please be specific.

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 11:46 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan , While you emphasize the enduring ‘5-2’ political equation, others might contend that such categorizations oversimplify the rich tapestry of perspectives in Beaufort County. Acknowledging a spectrum of viewpoints could contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the community’s needs and aspirations.

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 8:50 pm By: Gary Patrick Tucker

Mr. Hunter you seem to have misunderstood the comment. I did not say the Club for Growth’s platform was leftist. I said follow the money, and you will see many of their high end donors, have questionable interests at best. Meaning that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Whatever they have done of recently, I’m not aware, but Im sure they helped to get him elected originally. (Or I may be thinking about Ted Budd, idk birds of a feather all look alike to me, If only there had been an astute Rhino Hunter such as yourself at the time to warn the voter.)

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 10:22 pm By: Will Simmons

Thank you and indeed I’m aware that there are attacks on books coming from red and blue.

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 9:59 pm By: Will Simmons

That "true" story has, in fact been exposed as, at best, a half truth, Will.

It is actually the modern left that has been taking books, particularly classics, out of schools. Indeed, the extremist DEI ideology has even spawned bookburning by school officials, both burning books from their own libraries and urging students to go home and burn books. www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 9:25 pm By: Conservative Voter

RedState is right. This McConnell sellout "makes your blood boil". Is he trying to cause a GOP defeat in 2024? The House has HR2 which is a solid bill to stop illegal immigration. That is what the Senate should be demanding. There has always been a serious question of whose side McConnell is really on. redstate.com

Commented: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 9:06 pm By: borderhawk